This document covers the following topics:
In the local environment, an output window appears when a Natural program writes output to the screen. Example:
Note:
In a remote development environment, a terminal emulation
window or a Natural Web I/O Interface client appears instead of an output
window. See Terminal
Emulation and
Natural Web I/O
Interface Client in the Remote Development Using
SPoD documentation.
A button for the output window is shown in the Windows taskbar; keep this in mind when you minimize the output window.
The output window can be resized and moved. If the output window is smaller than the Natural output page, scroll bars appear.
PF keys defined in a Natural program are converted to command buttons. You can either use these command buttons or the PF keys on your keyboard.
Information from an input field in the Natural output can be cut or copied to the Windows clipboard, and information from the Windows clipboard can be pasted into an input field of the output window.
The cursor can be positioned using the mouse. Double-clicking the
left mouse button simulates the ENTER key. The system variables
*CURSOR,
*CURS-COL
and *CURS-LINE
are always set to the current mouse position.
Windows created using the statement
DEFINE WINDOW or the
terminal command %W are placed into
the output window. They are moveable, sizeable, and scrollable child windows of
the output window.
The output window is automatically closed when the program terminates. It cannot be closed manually using the standard Windows close button. If you want to close the output window before the regular termination of the program, you can press ESC (provided that this feature has not been disabled; see below).
Several options can be set for the output window. These options can either be set directly in the output window (as described below) or in Natural Studio (see Setting the Options in the documentation Using Natural Studio).
To change the output window profile
From the control menu of the output window, choose .
Note:
This command is not available when the display of the
profile dialog has been disabled. In this case, the output window options can
only be set in Natural Studio.
The following dialog box appears.
This dialog box contains the same options as the Options dialog box of Natural Studio. There is one exception: the following command is only available in the above dialog box since it can only be specified for a running application:
- Save current size and position
When this check box is selected, the current size and position of the output window is saved.
Set all required options. For a detailed description of each option, see Output Window Options in the documentation Using Natural Studio.
Choose the button to save your changes permanently.
Or:
Choose the button to save your
changes for the current session only.
Instead of using the Natural icon for the output window, you can use your icon. This icon will be shown in the control menu of the output window and in the Windows taskbar.
To use your own icon
Create an icon file (*.ico).
Store your icon file in a directory where it can be found by Natural.
Natural tries to find the icon file first in the
RES subdirectory of the logon library, then in the
RES subdirectory of each steplib and then in the directory
assigned to the Windows environment variable
NATGUI_BMP.
To use your own icon file, use the following statement in your program:
SET CONTROL 'I=icon-file-name.ICO'
See also the description of the terminal command
%I.